in the dark
Example Sentences
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The justices do this increasingly on the fly and in the dark.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2026
The task then is for the other players to work out who is in the dark.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026
The public discourse is bursting with timelines, but frankly, those are all just shots in the dark, as AGI will require another breakthrough moment like the launch of ChatGPT.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
And then, he said, “there is the inside, which is slower and more intimate, almost in the dark, hard to photograph.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026
Her time had switched to island time; she slept when it was night there and got up in the dark to turn on her computer at the island’s dawn.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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